Politico August 19, 2024
With Toni Odejimi
Driving the Day
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, after backing Medicare for All for years, is dropping the policy from her agenda, POLITICO’s Daniel Payne reports.
Progressive health advocates and policy wonks are OK with that.
Despite Harris being one of their best chances in recent memory to get a nominee for the White House to make a single-payer pitch, progressives said they understand the need to keep Republican candidate Donald Trump from winning, which they said would be an existential threat not just to the health system but also American democracy. They said they trust Harris to decide the policy agenda needed to do that.
“When you juxtapose...
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